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Westerns
ISBN: PB: 9781857547474, Carcanet, February 2005
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Westerns" is the classic account of the emergence, growth and flowering of one of the most perennially popular film genres. When it was first published thirty years ago it was welcomed by reviewers in Europe and the United States as a major work. In...
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£19,95
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Theater and Film A Comparative Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300103366, Yale University Press, November 2004
454 pp., 15.2x22.9 cm
This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development. Robert Knopf here assembles essays fr...
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£27,50
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Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen A Guide to 100 Years of Films, DVDs, and Videocassettes Featuring Operas, Opera Singers, and Operettas
ISBN: HB: 9780300102635, Yale University Press, July 2004
872 pp., 20x26 cm, 63 illus.
This bountiful book is a comprehensive guide to the thousands of films, DVDs, and videocassettes featuring operas and opera singers from 1896 to the present. From ABC Television to Franco Zeffirelli, the encyclopedia is a storehouse of fascinating in...
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£123,00
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Ancient World in the Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9780300083378, Yale University Press, March 2001
368 pp., 18x25.3 cm, 205 black&white illus.
This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from "The Last Days of Pompeii" to "Gladiator". Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Gre...
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£24,00
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Opera on Screen
ISBN: PB: 9780300191417, Yale University Press, March 2000
306 pp., 15.2x22.9 cm, black&white illus.
What happens to opera when it's presented on the screen? How does an opera change when it becomes a movie, a television presentation, or a video? This book is the first to explore opera and its treatment on the screen from a musicologist's perspectiv...
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£21,00
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Language of Cinema
ISBN: HB: 9781857542325, Carcanet, April 1998
288 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
At the time of its birth just over a century ago, the cinema was greeted as a kind of universal language – the first one that mankind had enjoyed since the complications of Babel and their aftermath. But this universal language soon developed a speci...
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£16,95
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Sin and Censorship The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry
ISBN: HB: 9780300063738, Yale University Press, March 1996
424 pp., 15.6x23.4 cm
During World War I, the Catholic church blocked the distribution of government-sponsored V. D. prevention films, initiating an era of attempts by the church to censor the movie industry. This book is an entertaining and engrossing account of those ef...
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£45,00
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